[149019] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Cooper)
Fri Jan 27 11:11:10 2012
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Thomas Cooper <cthomas@ca.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:07:42 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Digital distribution like Steam have the infrastructure built for it.
The entry fee for independent and smaller devs to Steam is way way lower
than all the licensing crap that Microsoft offers with their XBLA, and for
the larger companies, it costs next to nothing to host it digitally as
opposed to the brick-and-mortar packaging (especially when the game
requires Steam and you essential buy a CD key at the retail store, with
added taxes, etc....)
Besides, those console games are marked up to hell so I bet they make a
pretty penny for brick-and-mortar sales.
I doubt MS will try a full-blown Steam-like console digital distribution.
-Thomas Cooper
